Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

Well I don't want to talk about myself, that's so rude and egotistical.

Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising.

I could just sit back and get someone to spin my achievements, I suppose, but when I see others do it, I always think, 'Why are you telling me how successful you are?' I am always suspicious of those kinds of boasts.

Why not show off if you've got something to show?

My mom is very Southern and she in real life says things like, 'If you've got it, flaunt it.'

I don't like showboating. I was never a fan of showing off.

If you are the greatest, why would you go around talking about it?

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

Bragging just sounds good, man.

I was brought up not to brag. I've always disliked people who do.

You can't go around saying you're the best, all the time, 'cause it puts a target on your back.

Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own actions.

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Who walks around proud of things they've done? That's an obnoxious quality.

If you done it, it ain't bragging.

You never toot your own horn.

It's not bragging if you can back it up.

I was never that kid who used to brag about anything.

People talk to pass the time, share information, and entertain each other.

You just don't wake up one morning and say, 'I'm going to be a talker. I'm going to be a braggart.' It's something you achieve over the years, and you get better at it. Obviously, I've gotten pretty good at it.

I'm not trying to brag, but if I did expose my life, it would be a good YouTube series.

I'm not a player who beats his own drum.